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Oct172010
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Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill Canadian poll closes
Oct 17, 2010 Blogs Climate: CA The poll for best Science and Technology blog poll in Canada, which I mentioned in the Climate Cuttings post, seems to have closed, apparently prematurely.
I wonder why?
Update: No this was apparently expected.
Reader Comments (8)
Early?
http://cdnba.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/blog-awards-round-1-voting-has-begun/
says:
"Round 1 will end on October 17, 2010 at 12:00 noon."
Not sure which Canadian timezone, but isn't that about now?
"Update: No this was apparently expected."
I think you've maybe treated this too lightly - we respect you for your commitment to full disclosure and willingness to acknowledge mistakes, rather than for being infallible. In this case, it seems like quite a minor error, but it does show that you have perhaps become too ready to see conspiracies. We could all do well to take this as a reminder that sometimes there's a simple explanation.
Apologies if my tone makes this sound offensive - it's not intended as such. Unlike certain people I can think of, we're capable of learning something from mistakes, however minor :)
Yep, Dave, the footing is uneasy. There are vast forces arrayed in unrehearsed scenarios. Step lightly.
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Climate Audit just squeaked by - with 1,859 votes.
The others received
7
19
4
51
6
12 votes respectively :-)
CA finished with 94.94% of the vote...
What Canadian poll? I've never even heard of the site. Maybe its big with the university crowd... or specific sects found therein. There's the rub with polls, demographics representing demographics representing the entirety of a people with a +/- of 50% depending on their sobriety and longterm exposure to Jabba the Gore.
Should start off every poll with a yes/no on Al Gore getting a Nebula for Inconvenient Truth.
With only about half a day notice, Climate Audit got more than a third of the votes cast in all the polls added together. It's a blind stab in the dark but I think CA might win. The spike in traffic must have been a bit of an eye opener.
Seems that climateaudit has got through to the "final", whatever that means.
When you're typically polling of the order of tens of votes for a handful of sites, do you really need a final?
Oh well, in for a penny, in for a pound. Votes here:
http://poll.fm/2couk
Well, Steve can still be nominated as an "Influential Canadian".
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/25/article1702824.ece